Hegemonic Spread and Lethal Creep: The Case of Japan

Originally posted on We Kill Because We Can:
Earlier this year, the people of Japan took to the streets to oppose Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s proposal to reintroduce the possibility of military engagement abroad. After the horrors of World War II, memories of the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 were…